Abstract
Textual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the process, a very full historical account of treatments of metonymy from classical traditions up to the present time is given and critiqued. The author proposes a semiotic approach to the treatment of metonymy, on the basis of which a textual model of metonymy as a process of representation is developed to account for text cohesion and text coherence.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Number of pages | 226 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781403938909 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781403913326 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 20 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Social Sciences(all)